TSC swimmer Dana Sherrard is in Israel for the 19th Maccabiah Games, where swimming competition is ready to get underway tomorrow! The 15-year old Sherrard will be swimming primarily freestyle and butterfly events at the Games and we hope that her family will send us some pictures so we can illustrate Dana's performances at her first International competition. Good luck Dana!

Following Thursday night's Finals in Pointe-Claire, Sr. Nationals have reached their half-way point and TSC swimmers are starting to make an impact. Leading the way for TSC have been a trio of Silver medal performances... Matt Myers 100BK (55.97) Warren Barnes 100BR (1:02.89) Vanessa Treasure 400IM (4:47.85) (pictured) Additionally TSC has had Finalists score points including Oliver Straszynski's 9th place finish in the men's 200FR (1:52.79) and Simone Cseplo adding a 9th place finish in the women's 50BK (30.89). Competition will continue in Pointe-Claire through Saturday night and with many...

Competition at the 2013 Summer Senior National Championships in Pointe-Claire, Quebec gets underway tomorrow morning and runs through Saturday, and some of TSC's best are there are ready to compete. This summer's Sr. National Championships is one of the most wide-open competitions in recent years due to the fact that a good number of Canada's regular National Team members are away at International competitions taking place at this point in time.  Some of Canada's best are coming off the World University Games that are wrapping up tomorrow in Kazan and...

TSC's Paige Schultz has helped Canada to a second Bronze medal in relay action at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia.  Paige was a part of the 4x200FR Canadian Relay along with Savannah King, Brittany MacLean, and Lindsay Delmar that finished in 8:02.73 and good enough for Bronze. Earlier in Finals action, Schultz finished 7th in the women's 200IM Final (2:17.44) and TSC's Zack Chetrat also had a 7th place finish in the men's 200FL Final (1:58.92). In Sunday AM preliminary action, TSC's Edward Liu swam a new personal...

Toronto Swim Club would like congratulate Malcolm Fairweather who announced his retirement from swimming following the Ontario Age Group Championships in Brantford, which ran July 4-7th. Malcolm is a well-decorated Para swimmer with TSC and has participated internationally on many an occassion. This week Malcolm was recognized as the Canada Cup Para Swimmer of the meet based on his double medal performance in Montreal during the June 27-30th competition. Additionally, Malcolm followed up his success at Canada Cup with a double medal performance at the Ontario Age Group Championships in...

Toronto Swim Club sent a full group of swimmers out to Brampton on Wednesday for the Provincial Open Water Championships at the beautiful Professors Lake venue.  Congratulations are in order for five members of the team who won medals on Wednesday... MEDAL WINNERS Kaitlin Gervais... GOLD women's 5km Jacob Rothery... GOLD 13 year old men's 2km & overall 2km Champion Sam Yaghmour... GOLD men's 5km Bronwyn Colford... BRONZE women's 5km Zan Merison... BRONZE women's 12 year old 2km The Open Water Provincials are a great event held every summer, truly...

On day 1 at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia TSC swimmer Paige Schultz and three teammates won Canada's first medal in the pool.  Schultz was joined by Brittany MacLean, Caroline Lapierre Lemire, and Sandrine Mainville on Canada's 4x100FR relay team that went 3:40.71, which was good enough to win a bronze medeal! Congratulations to Paige and her teammates, check back in here to follow how all 5 TSC swimmers fair in Kazan!

The swimming competition at the 2013 Summer Universaide taking place in Kazan, Russia gets underway tomorrow and five TSC swimmers attending the University of Toronto will be representing Canada at the Games.  For the uninitiated, the Univesaide is basically the World University Student Games and often refered to as the FISU Games. TSC swimmers that will be reprenting Canada (pictured L to R)... Zack Chetrat Frank Despond Edward Liu Heather Maitland Paige Schultz Additionally, University of Toronto swimmer Chris Manning (swims club for WRMS) will also be representing Canada at...

Congratulations to the TSC 13-14 year old girls relay teams, 4-for-4 Provincial Champions!  Above are the medley relay girls Madeline Noble, Penny Oleksiak, Katja Pavicevic, Aleksa Gold (L to R). For the freesytle relays, Renee Corbiere (4x50) and Lucy Straszynski (4x100) filled in for Katja but the result was the same... GOLD! #GoTSC

Over the weekend, TSC sent a full team of our best age group swimmers to the Ontario Age Group Championships in Brantford, Ontario.  As a team TSC finished 2nd overall in the team standings and garnered 43 medals (37 individual and 6 relay). Standing out were the girls 13-14 year old relay teams that went a perfect 4-for-4 winning gold medals in both freestyle relays and both medley relays as well! MEDAL RUNDOWN GOLD Malcolm Fairweather - 50BR Kaitlin Gervais - 1500FR Vanessa Gold - 800FR Madeline Noble - 100BK,...